"From My Point of View" is the second film in our three-part series Exposing the Invisible.
This episode follows citizen journalists and 'investigators-in-the-making', rather than professional investigative journalists. The film features three inspiring activists and looks at the techniques they've used in their investigations, from arms smuggling in Syria's 'YouTube conflict', to urban land-grabbing in Beirut and house demolitions in East Jerusalem.
The most popular story in the latest Micro-magazine issue on Gender + Violence.
A good campaign is like a good joke. A joke's effectiveness relies on the use of the right words, good timing, convincing delivery and a strong punch-line delivered to the right person in the right way. When visualising information for advocacy these are the factors we need to consider.
Now that activists can collect the evidence to expose corruption, injustice or violence, how do they make sure it can have impact despite a hostile environment? How do activists defending the environment secure themselves and the sensitive information they're gathering? If scientific evidence can be manipulated or challenged, then what does that mean for environmental justice?
In the words of Edward Snowden, "Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on..." and one of the primary goals of Security in-a-Box is to help demystify those two facets of reliability: to identify security tools that the community considers "strong," and to guide you through whichever aspects of "properly implemented" fall on your shoulders, as a user of those tools.
You've probably forgotten by now that Syria is famous for ping pong. So what better way to motivate protestors under tight military control than to write encouraging slogans of peace on thousands of ping pong balls and release them to bounce down the streets of Damascus. This is just one of the tactics showcased in Dawlaty's Arabic booklet - Tactics used in the Syrian Revolution Movement. This is the first Arabic publication of its kind that complies and categorises info-activism in Syria.
Live illustrations from our recent digital security workshop at Media in Cooperation and Transition.
Illustrations by Julian Kueklich
Our new documentary series 'Exposing the Invisible' is featured in an article entitled "Info-activism: Why You (Yes You!) Should Care About It" by Tactical Tech's Eva Blum-Dumontet in The Huffington Post. Over at the New Internationalist, in an article about the film series Marek Tuszynski asks us to Mobilize, organize – but also scrutinize.
Tactical Tech's Anne Roth took to the 'Noisy Square' at the Observe Hack Make Festival to talk about our work.
A documentary film series exploring new forms of investigative journalism, plus an extensive investigative resource bank
